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Four Schoolboys

THIS is a short novel with a slight plot to which vio lence is a stranger and sex merely a nodding acquaintance. It is completely English--and upper-class English at that. It follows four schoolboys growing up and apart and discovering that things are not always what they seem. The world will be too much with them from now on.

July 08, 1951

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